Johanna Miyaki
Community Engagement ManagerJohanna Miyaki is KALW's Community Engagement Manager. A KALW Audio Academy Alumni (2021-2022), she returned to the KALW newsroom as the Elections Production Manager for the 2024 General Election. She was a producer and editor at KCBS San Francisco, reported on Indigenous communities for El Tecolote, and worked on their podcast, Radio Teco. She has also worked as a freelance journalist, videographer, audio recordist, and field producer while making a career transition from a live event producer to a multimedia producer. Johanna was born in Washington DC, raised in Maryland, and now calls San Francisco home. She lives in Oceanview with her husband, daughter and their rescue, Rocco. Community work is in her DNA. She represents her local public library branch for the Council of Neighborhood Libraries, is a cofounder of the neighborhood group, We Are OMI, and the project director of their SF Parks Alliance group, Friends of the OMI Mini Parks. You can find her wandering trails in the Bay Area including the SF Crosstown Trail, and volunteering for the Crosstown Trail Coalition.
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Beginning on Monday, 36,000 tons of sand will be moved over the next two weeks to stave off sand migrating onto the northern stretch of San Francisco’s Great Highway. -
CrosscurrentsKALW Election Production Manager Johanna Miyaki went to an event co-sponsored by Oaklandside and Capital B, a black-led, national nonprofit news organization. It was part of Capital B's Black Political Power Tour. -
San Francisco had its first mayoral debate last night. The top five candidates talked about their priorities and solutions for the city’s biggest problems. -
San Francisco played host this week to a political showdown in Democratic and Republican fundraising efforts. -
CrosscurrentsThe San Francisco Unified School District is considering school closures and mergers to help close a major deficit. We're sharing an excerpt from a recent meeting of its District Advisory Committee. -
The City of Hayward is switching from at-large-based elections to district-based city council elections. -
Cinco de Mayo celebrations in San Jose this year will feature an unexpected collaboration between the lowrider community and the San Jose Police. -
We visit the Naiad Cove exhibit, a self guided, immersive experience with soundscapes and simulations that recreate the sights and sounds of the Sutro Cliff neighborhood throughout different points in its history. -
Guests at the old Cliff House Restaurant enjoyed breathtaking ocean views as part of their dining experience until it closed in 2020. While the city waits for a new restaurant to open in that space, visitors are being served a different kind of experience with the same stunning ocean views. KALW’s Johanna Miyaki has more. -
CrosscurrentsHuib Petersen is an artist in San Francisco. He is accomplished in needle craft art and has taught all over the world. He is also well-known in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood for the whimsical yarn animals he crochetes. He does it because he says it makes him feel good to spread joy to others.
